I went to a real Mexican restaurant today. The place has great food, quick service, and most of their dishes are as good a deal if not better than fast food. It's not as quick as going to a McDonalds or Taco Bell, but well worth it if you have half an hour to just sit and eat.I couldn't even finish, and that doesn't happen that often with me.

Why couldn't have you?

Probably because there was a lot of food.

Bingo.

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Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:00 am

DanTwelve3

Joined: Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:45 pmPosts: 174Location: Twin Cities

Re: The Food Topic #Nom nOm noM

We get salsa and chips with good Tex-Mex up here in the northern reaches of the US. I haven't found any true Mexican restaurants around here like I've seen in AZ, but they must exist. Big metropolitan areas tend to have every cuisine known to man, and some not.

Woah! My man, you missed out. Guess the bottomless-chip-bowl-at-Mexican-restaurants concept is so deeply ingrained into the Texan psyche that nobody bothers mentioning it. For locals, it would be like having your waitress inform you that you're supposed to eat your salad with the supplied fork and not a butter knife. Duh.

I'm from Maryland and we have that, so I don't think it's an exclusively Texas thing.

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Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:17 pm

0404

Re: The Food Topic #Nom nOm noM

I Never been to Mexican food place before in Manisnowba, Canada. I mean it's really hard to Find Mexican and Mexican food place there.Anywhoooo I'm going for another rounds of mexican foods this tuesday just for endless salsa and chips.

Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:50 pm

holmebrian

Joined: Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:27 amPosts: 95Location: Melbourne,Florida

Re: The Food Topic #Nom nOm noM

anyone have firehouse subs near where they live?

because the Kings Hawaiian sandwichs are to die for.i would gladly get fat eating them!

coleslaw and pulled pork that is so tender you could feed it to a baby.on one of the kings Hawaiian rolls

Pea: Not exclusively, no. But I was only talking about Texas to begin with... didn't want to make any overly broad statements.

That said (from personal experience during summer travel), the concept does seem to be somewhat less common in the northern half of the States... maybe about a 60/40 or 70/30 split? For whatever it's worth, that's going by a fairly limited sample.

Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:58 pm

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Re: The Food Topic #Nom nOm noM

I'd kill for a pizza right now...

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I work in a Mexican restaurant which are kind of rare in Australia. We get people coming from a 45min drive away to eat at our place. People always seem to like the food but because it's technically a family restaurant we have to keep everything mild and have people ask for hot sauce on the side.

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Never, ever make hot chips ( these ) in a microwave. I microwaved them for ten minutes and the edges were just beginning to harden while they were still ultimately mush. I heated up the deep fryer in a last attempt to save my chips, and in five minutes I had perfectly good hot chips. ^_^

For seasoning, I use salt and pepper, and a second ingredient that changes names depending on where in the U.S. it is found. In the south, it's called red seasoning salt. In the north, it is commonly referred to as chili powder. Either way, it's pretty much the same thing. Ranch also makes a fantastic dipping sauce for hot chips as well, although I am interested in trying honey mustard the next time I make them.

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Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:05 am

0404

Re: The Food Topic #Nom nOm noM

Saved chips!!!

do you guys put maplesyrup on your icecream? or is it just Canadian thing?

Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:03 pm

Wanderer

Re: The Food Topic #Nom nOm noM

That sounds amazing.

Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:05 pm

Sleet

Bringing Foxy Back

Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 amPosts: 16891Location: Nephelokokkygia

Re: The Food Topic #Nom nOm noM

texascat018 Wrote:

Saved chips!!!

do you guys put maplesyrup on your icecream? or is it just Canadian thing?

No but suddenly I feel extremely deprived.

Also, that's really stereotypical. And yet amazing. Just like the various frightening-yet-delicious American deep-fried novelties.

I actually haven't eaten maple syrup for a long time.Sounds pretty good, actually.

Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:15 pm

Beagle

Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:09 pmPosts: 1641Location: North Carolina

Re: The Food Topic #Nom nOm noM

texascat018 Wrote:

Saved chips!!!

do you guys put maplesyrup on your icecream? or is it just Canadian thing?

I'm pretty sure it's a Canadian thing. However, I do live in the South so maybe the northern U.S. has heard of that combination. Also,Point 1) I'm lactose intolerant. Point 2) I don't like very sweet stuff. Chocolate is my sweets limit.

Well, most of the good chocolate you can buy in the US is foreign, so it's understandable.

I've never had the good stuff, if I did I might actually like chocolate.

This is one of my favorite places (I can't say the name here, It'll get censored. It's just the founders name...short for "Richard")It's their fries that I love the most...and shakes. So, If you are ever in the area, try it!

You know, I have only once ever had something so hot that I needed to drink something. There have been times that I went for water or milk, but only once that I absolutely needed a drink and decided not to have more after.Usually when I have something hot, I'm just like "Yea, it's kind of hot. But it needs to be hotter."

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